traditionalist

    SU foreign diplomacy:

    • unreasonable repetitions
    • extravagant demands

    a paradox in SU views

    • US capitalism going to destroy itself, it is a dying ideology
    • while at the same time US is a continuous moral enemy

    traditional tsarist Russia

    • US - long line of external enemies

    Marxist-Leninism

    • economic theory

    The German Question

    • whole world centers on the German Question
    • SU kept many German prisoners of war to bargain for Germany concessions
    • German technology: jet engines, missiles
      • V2 rocket
      • M1 first jet fighter squadron
    • Operation Paperclip
      • Leg Werner von Braun
    • problem about delivery of atomic weapons
    • aims of each country:
      • France
        • security
        • division of Germany
      • SU
        • security
        • reparations & exploitations
      • US
        • NOT GIVING IN TO COMMUNISM!
        • markets to buy US extra surplus of goods
        • want a buffer zone against communist
      • UK
        • economic revival by itself! For trade!
          • for them able to buy imports on their own
        • zone having the highest population density -> too much cost
        • want a weakened but economically functioning G
    • Westerners willing to compromise with each other
    • US wanted transfer of sovereignty to Japan and G as fast as possible

    Berlin blockade

    • killed communist supporters in France and Italy

    SU brand everything as ‘fascist’

    zero sum

    • every time when there is an international act, there is a winner and a loser

    positive sum

    • everyone derives some benefits from the international act

    Berlin good place for espionage and showing US propaganda

    • Voice of America
    • Free Europe forecast

    decolonization

    • Dutch (occupied by Nazi so had to give up)
      • Indonesia
    • France (wanted them back!)
      • Indo-China
        • Vietnam
          • Ho Chi Minh

        • Cambodia
        • Laos
    • UK (agreed on terms with US)
      • India
    • Belgium

    Red Scare

    General Douglas McArthur

    • US control in Japan
    • Japan was not part of the Marshall Plan
      • own program of reconstruction

    SU going to have infinite friendly states and eventually lead to world domination